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Description: | In the middle-distance, viewed from slightly on the starboard bow, there is a large ship with only her lowermasts stepped and fore topmast swayed up. A crowd of boats and small yachts are round her. In the left foreground there is a stern view of a boeier yacht making for the ship with the wind on the port quarter.
This is a pencil and wash drawing by the Younger, signed ?W.V.VJ.? It is inscribed with an ?L? (light) in the sky.
Box Title: Van de Velde 1665. Ingram nos 949-981.
caption: The launch of a large Dutch ship | Publisher: | "http://collections.rmg.co.uk/" | Rights holder: | "Royal Museums Greenwich" | Subjects: | drawings water transport: sailing vessel: unknown [Dutch] | Source: | Royal Museums Greenwich | Identifier: | http://collections.rmg.co.uk/collections... | Go to resource |
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